Sarah is currently the CFO of Mamas and Papas, the leading nursery retailer and brand in the UK, with her role covering not only finance but also operations, procurement, property and legal. Sarah is ICAEW qualified but unusually studied and trained “in industry” during her first role out of university at P&G. Sarah has spent much of her career in global consumer goods manufacturing businesses in a variety of finance roles (P&G, Heinz and Pladis). Latterly, she spent 4 years at Asda as a senior finance director for George Clothing and non-food, plus a role leading M&A and cash management for the business. Sarah remains connected to Asda by still sitting as a Trustee on the Asda Foundation board and chair of the finance subcommittee. Sarah has a passion for supporting and promoting women in the workplace having founded a society at Oxford university called Oxford Women in Business. She is mum to 2 girls and a big advocate for finding work life balance. Experience includes: finance and accounting, M&A, refinancing, legal, commercial negotiation, procurement, property, logistics, mentoring and charity work.

Bruce is the Finance, Legal and Procurement Director for Weetabix – The UK’s Number 1 Breakfast Cereal. In a career spanning 25+ years since he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, he has always worked in Consumer Focused / Physical product businesses based across the UK & Europe – Hush Puppies / Wolverine Worldwide and now the Weetabix Food Company. Through his career he has embedded finance in the core of business and extended the reach of finance throughout the businesses – showing a Finance Director/Function can be more than just numbers! Outside work – Bruce loves travelling (always needs a large City Fix!), gardening and theatre with his Husband.

Vivek is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW/ICAI) and MBA (Finance) from India with 20 years of leadership experience and a track record of driving business turnarounds, corporate strategy, finance transformation & supply chain in high growth consumer, pharma, and e-commerce businesses. He started his career with General Electric in their leadership development program, then spent a decade at Unilever in roles including supply chain, management accounting, divisional CFO before moving to London as part of their Global FP&A team. He then joined Snapdeal as VP Finance where he led the business turnaround towards sustainable and profitable growth. Vivek is now the Divisional CFO at Convatec Group Plc for their Advanced Wound Dressings business managing Europe and North America. He is also on the board of Convatec Ltd (UK subsidiary) and recently acquired Starlight Sciences UK.

Premal has 20 years of international financial experience and has led finance functions in multi-site FTSE 100, Fortune 500 and PE-backed businesses. He is recognised as an inspiring people leader and a trusted co-pilot to his fellow business leaders. He has a passion for influencing business strategy, driving transformational change, and developing leading teams. He is a Fellow of the ICAEW following the completion of the ACA and Corporate Finance Diploma, and is a board advisor / member of several finance communities which deliver peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Beyond work, Prem is interested in wildlife preservation, mountain & volcano hiking, scuba diving, keeping fit and cooking.

James is Finance Director of Stansted & East Midlands Airports, part of MAG, the UK’s largest airport group, whom he joined in 2019, serving over 60 million passengers per annum. Over the past 25 years he has held FD & CFO roles across a range of B2C and B2B sectors including travel, retail & leisure, property, payments & financial services, for companies including William Hill, Countrywide, The Money Shop, GlobalPayments and HSBC. James has worked internationally across Europe, US and AsiaPacific, having led teams covering multiple countries and territories. Focused on growing brand orientated, customer led businesses in changing environments, James has led a variety of teams across Finance, Strategy, Business Development, IT and Operations. James qualified with PwC, before working for 5 years in their national Private Equity practice, specialising in mergers, acquisitions, business development and strategy.

Kelly is a C-Level Business Leader, Finance Director & Non-Executive Director who possesses extensive experience in driving impactful business change, operational development and strategic profitable growth. Kelly’s depth of international experience was gained within public listed, multinational, privately owned and start-up companies and underpins strong global mindset. Named in 100 Women to Watch 2020, The Cranfield Female FTSE Board Report.

Sarah is CEO of professional services group Ampa and law firm Shakespeare Martineau, which is part of the group. Ampa is the largest professional services B-Corp in the world. Sarah was the first female non-lawyer CEO in the legal top 50 and was recently named as the UK’s most influential legal leader on social media. Sarah is also a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Director and an MBA. Sarah is a former governor at Nottingham Trent University, is a founding associate of VocL, a board advisor to Anthropy and is a member of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House.